Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That, said Reston, was why he had gone after the position papers, and why the Times had published them. "Nothing is more effective in political life than a fait accompli," he said. "Nobody knows this better than the politician. It is therefore the duty of the reporter to get the facts as quickly as possible...
Next day, after a visit with wounded Viet Nam veterans at Walter Reed Hospital, he appeared before a high-spirited crowd of 6,000 Democrats at a $100-a-plate dinner in Washington and unloosed an oldfashioned, stump politician's spellbinder-and, this time, some far broader barbs at Fulbright. When Johnson rose to speak, he glanced a dozen seats down the head table where the Arkansas Senator sat. Said the President: "I am delighted to be here tonight with many of my very old friends-as well as some members of the Foreign Relations Committee." Chairman Fulbright, wearing...
Died. Walter E. Alessandroni, 51, Pennsylvania's able attorney general, a canny state politician who in 1962 masterminded William Scranton's successful gubernatorial campaign, and recently developed his own political ambitions as a Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor next fall; in the crash of a Piper Aztec (along with his wife); in the Allegheny Mountains near Somerset, Pa. Whereupon Scranton and top state Republicans urged party members to vote for Alessandroni anyway in this week's primary in order to defeat his opponent, Goldwaterite Blair F. Gunther, which would enable Scranton to name a replacement...
Despite his boosterish manner, Shriver is a shrewd politician. In 1957 his reputation as a businessman, tireless fund raiser and efficient president of the Chicago Board of Education resulted in a brief Sargent-for-Governor boomlet. It subsided quickly, but his friends expect another to develop-say, two years from now. "I don't have any current plan to run for office," he says, "but who knows what will happen in 1968 in Illinois?" He notes nonetheless that Governor Otto Kerner is finishing his second term, and only one man has ever run successfully for three terms in Illinois...
...method has become standardized: spit in their shoe, serve it to you. Novelist Cohen is all spit and no polish. His anti-hero is a Canadian writer who has had a homosexual affair with a Member of Parliament, who himself slept with the writer's wife. Both politician and wife are now dead, he of syphilis and she of the results of crawling into the bottom of an elevator shaft and waiting for someone to press the down button. The antihero, left alone with his nausea, distracts himself by recreating the career of a Mohawk Indian saint named Catherine...